putting it together

–the vol 3 of outlaw midwives is shaping up. yay! i am getting excited about the prospect of sitting on the floor and putting it together.

–we had a first installation show at water studio. i still have to get up the pics from the show on the tumblr blog. but the show was beautiful. deconstruction, chaos, rough, lyrical visually.

–the bridge called my baby: lex and china and i have been working hard core on this book especially in the past month. you guys! it is going to be an amazing anthology! working with lex and china is a dream. i am so blessed, each of us have come to this place on a very different journey, but here we are. sharing what we have learned along the way with each other. also the good thing about working with three people, is someone can be out for one stage of the project, and the work continues with the other two. this is useful since we all have multi faceted lives.

–i, more and more, want to publish a book of poetry. i feel like i need an editor or mentor or someone who understands poetry books to help me go through my work, edit, select, think through the process…know of anyone like that? let me know…

–and of course working on the memoir. going to kick that writing into high gear this week.

–cal and aza are going to the states in late june. most of my friends are going to europe for the summer. and soon it will be just me and a few stragglers (ha ha)…i dont want to go to the states. it just wouldnt be a space in which i could focus on my work/writing. i would spend that month running around like a chicken with my head cut off, this family, that family, these friends, must see, must see, exhausted. no one would be satisfied. everyone would want more. and i would be unhappy feeling like i was letting myself down in this crucial time when it comes to my writing/my art/my studies.

as much as sometimes i get homesick, i cant tell you what i am homesick for… because i dont really have a home.

but as much as i love cairo, i dont want to hang out here all summer either. so i am thinking maybe europe for a quick trip….